On a cloudy day in Duluth, I was wandering on the edge of a
patch of woods looking for warblers. I spotted a blackburnian warbler and a
Canada warbler, but beyond that the shadowy woods only revealed sounds of
black-throated green warblers, ovenbirds, and white-throated and chipping
sparrows. Turning back to the open area, I noticed another late-blooming (at
least compared to Madison!) plant. A scraggly looking pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) had just opened its
flowers next to its unfurling leaves. While the flowers of this member of the
rose family aren’t as fragrant as other roses, they provided a glimpse of
summer on this cloudy spring day.
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